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4.0 out of 5 stars
C'est Incredible,
By David Heasman "silv-pheo" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: How To Be The Luckiest Person Alive! (Kindle Edition)
I will have to recommend this book to you, yes even if you are the son of the Dinosaur King of Gibralta and have everything the son of a Dinosaur King would. You still need to read this book.Brutally honest, worth tremendous value, and damn hilarious. The Daily Practice (yes it sounds corny and self-helpy), is worth a try. Yes. A try. Get it now
4.0 out of 5 stars
Repetitive, but Great,
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This review is from: How To Be The Luckiest Person Alive! (Kindle Edition)
This is a relatively short book, very repetitive, peppered with errors, and does not fulfil its title.But - I would recommend it to anyone. It is brutally honest, full of great 'from the coalface' advice, and thoroughly entertaining.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Repetitive and rambling,
By Rainy Day Reader - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: How to Be the Luckiest Person Alive! (Paperback)
According to the intro, "How to be the Luckiest Person Alive" is supposed to "unleash the core that will drive you from desire to ambition to meaning." Readers can be forgiven if they are still a confused. This book isn't The Secret and it's not going to help you figure out what your life means. It also won't talk about luck.So what does the book actually cover? A lot. An awful lot. Everything from whether to buy a house, what to do when you're suddenly wealthy, why to avoid college, and how to fire employees. It's nominally about some very high-level generalities about running startup businesses. The biggest problem is that everything is in lists. Long lists. Long lists with little supporting detail or emphasis. Any real points quickly get lost as he races from one bullet to the next, with no hint which is essential, which is a joke and which is just filler. In one classic chapter, he rattles off over 80 "rules" for a business. Some some like crucial, vital pieces of information like "get a customer" and "be profitable". These rules sound like they can make or break a business and should always be followed. Other rules sound like handy tips, like "have killer parties" and "at Christmas, donate money to every customer's favorite charity." By the time you've droned through ten pages, everything blurs and the really key ideas (whichever they were) are lost. And since it is just a long list of rules, most readers will forget them before the chapter is done. After he goes through several anecdotes including an uncomfortable chapter when he seems fixated on how much sex and drugs he did in college, the useful content more or less fizzes out. There's no real conclusion and nothing to wrap it up. Instead, as if to ensure that we forget everything, we get almost 100 pages of direct reprints of various blog articles which are, you guessed it, more lists. And since they were blog posts, each chapter is disconnected from everything which came before and after. He writes very well as a blogger. The list format is a natural fit and writing short, self-contained essays is a virtue. As a book however, it is a failure. My advice is to subscribe to his blog and skip the book. 29 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
As an Altucher fan, I am very disappointed,
By JO - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: How to Be the Luckiest Person Alive! (Paperback)
I am a regular reader of James Altucher's blog, and immediately purchased this book when I learned of it. I was excited to read this, but am very disappointed. The book is basically a copy and paste rehash of his blog posts. On his blog, he admits that it took him three weeks to put this book together. It shows. The book is full of misspellings and typos. One of the chapters invites readers to leave a comment in the comment section - obviously something that should have been edited out when pasting from his blog.I really wanted to like this book, however it is so sloppy that it is almost unreadable. 8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This Book Eats Your Time Worse Than All Those Blogs & FaceBook,
By Tim Atkinson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: How to Be the Luckiest Person Alive! (Paperback)
This book falls into the Janis Joplin category "It's so good don't ever start." It's really hard not to read another chapter. I found myself reading instead of working. I am buying more copies for my entrepreneur buddies.Altucher has screwed up more deals, passed up more opportunities, and utterly thrown away more money than anybody I know. He tells you exactly how he did it. As he points out, you learn most from your mistakes, and he's learned a lot. I've read the other reviews. They all are truthful. Your expectations will become your reality. So just buy the book, OK? Your Margarita last night cost more. But this is funny and lasts longer. |
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